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Want Transformational Teachers? Here’s Why Change Starts With Coaches

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Years before I wrote my book, “Courageous Edventures,” and helped develop an instructional coaching model used in schools across the country, I served as a district leader supporting instructional coaches. And the time they spent with instructional coaches seemed key to moving the needle.

Coaching 167
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#2: 10 education trends for 2018

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Vrain Valley (CO) School District, for example, began using peer coaching to address its teacher and substitute shortage. Instead of hiring substitutes to cover for teachers to attend PD sessions, the district’s teachers began using video to receive instructional coaching and support. Assessing less to learn more.

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What Schools Miss When They’re Missing Relationship Data

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Moreover, they tell schools nothing about students’ connections with family, friends, coaches, neighbors and the like that make up a young person’s actual network, and often contain valuable assets that schools could tap into. Pen-and-paper and spreadsheets may suffice for short activities and small programs.

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What Does It Take To Successfully Implement Personalized Learning at Scale?

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Additionally, McGraw Hill Plus enables our educators to quickly form groups and assign specific learning activities for personalization. It wasn’t about buy-in but instead helping teachers feel comfortable making changes successfully. Change management is crucial to this process.

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Driving Change to Personalized Learning? Here’s How Three Leaders Have Done It

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Each chart has cheat sheets on how to use each report to target instruction along with what kind of activities their students could do, including online and offline learning activities. Creating teacher buy-in for personalized learning Change management can be a lonely process.

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Why a High-Achieving District Keeps Tinkering With a School Model That Already Works

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Build a Diverse Committee By all practical measures our committee was too large with 28 members including: a teacher or building administrator from each school, district administrators, technology coaches, parents and community members. But we felt it was important to make sure that every stakeholder had representation.

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How Transcend Education Partners with School Leaders to Build New Models

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During this phase, there were also meetings to discuss the change management strategy, to build a budget for the project and to assist Toll in raising funds for the work. The next step involved developing a strategy for the work; together they decided that the best strategy was to design a new school model from scratch.

Education 131